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| StueyM Newbie United Kingdom franticfrenchmissi&# Joined 5550 days ago 9 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 1 of 2 03 February 2010 at 6:37pm | IP Logged |
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This year, I have vowed to seriously improve my Portuguese. I've been studying for about two years, and after 3 months in Brazil, I'd say I'm at B1 (low intermediate level).
What I used in the past I went through the FSI Portuguese course, all of Pimsleur Portuguese (twice!) and a couple of teach yourself type books. I also put about 3,000 high-priority words into an SRS. I now think this wasn't the best way forward... What I'm doing now I've got really into the AJATT methodology and I am going to try to be as hard core as I can with this and see what results I get. Here's how I've applied AJATT to my Portuguese study so far: Removed all non-Portuguese language from my computer and MP3 player Vowed to only read Portuguese novels Tried to do as much as possible in Portuguese Abandoned my Portuguese-English dictionary for a monolingual one Instead of SRSing individual words, I'm putting sentences into the SRS. So far I have 170. AJATT recommends 10,000. This may take a while... For me the biggest challenge is getting over the addiction to English. I've made a start though, and today, instead of learning about website building in English, I'm determined to use this site and not peep at anything in English: http://www.icmc.usp.br/ensino/material/html/ I'll let you know how it goes... (edit 03/02/10) Edited by StueyM on 03 February 2010 at 6:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| StueyM Newbie United Kingdom franticfrenchmissi&# Joined 5550 days ago 9 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 2 of 2 04 February 2010 at 11:01am | IP Logged |
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Great, I've found the Portuguese e-book and audio book versions of one of my favourite novels: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It's made up of lots of short chapters so it should be easy to digest.
I'm going to try going systematically through each chapter like this: Read/ listen 1 Read/ listen 2 compare English text add sentences with new vocabulary to SRS Read/ listen 3 1 person has voted this message useful |
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